Keyword: «peasants»

Economic Development of Russia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and the Transformation of Peasant Mentaliy

ART 56153

Authors:

Olga Rijkova,

Oleg Rumkin

This article highlights the close relationship of Russian economic development in the second half of the nineteenth century and its impact on changing the mentality of peasants.

Keywords: modernization, industry, transport, mentality, agriculture, trade, russian economic development, peasants, tula province

CIVILIZATIONAL FEATURES OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH OF MEDIEVAL RUSSIA: THE ASPECT OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

Authors:

Valerii Skryabin,

Sergei Savenko

The article examines very peculiar socio-political relations related to local self-government. As the example of separated region of the Eurasian continent – the Russian North of the pre-Petrine era. The author thought that the true democracy of our civilization can be seen in a single hierarchical system of representative authority of regional self-government, which existed in those time, and which was the basis of power in traditional society.

Keywords: clergy, zemstvo, church, power, peasants, parish, self-government, voivodeship as administration, congregation, lay assembly, lay council, posad